BY LAURA SECORUN PALETAPR  Every day all over the world, people cross borders in search of a better life. But you know things are truly bad back home when you need to seek refuge in Sudan. That’s precisely what more than 125,530 people have done — and the United Nations …

    Cairo-Egypt (munkhafadat.info) Eritrean community members residing in the Egyptian capital Cairo attended an evening of solidarity with the Eritrean detainees and disappeared citizens on April 14, 2016. It  was part of the global campaign of solidarity  which is carried out by  the Eritrean diasporas in different parts of the world …

by GRAHAM PEEBLES Migration is a major political and social issue throughout Europe; in the UK it is a highly emotive matter, distorted by the rabid right wing media and irresponsible politicians. The numbers of asylum seekers (people fleeing conflict and persecution of one kind or another) arriving in the …

Eritreans demonstrate in Israel. Karen Zack (activestills)/Flickr. (CC 2.0 by-nc-nd) TEKALIGN AYALEW MENGISTE Migrants moving north from the Horn of Africa face uncertainty and violence at every step of their journeys. To minimise the risks they have created thick networks of help and know-how. The current migration and refugee crisis …

In today’s French press, Eritrea, Africa’s forgotten emergency is revisited as thousands flee the totalitarian regime in Asmara to Europe.  La Croix At least 5,000 Eritreans flee the country in a permanent state of war every month some crossing over to Ethiopia while others have had to travel across the …